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Sorry, but you're wrong - I have a player in my badminton sessions who is a leftie, and he is a tough cookie to handle. Even the best player in our group admitted that he has a major advantage being a leftie - all shots made must be "REVERSED", which is not an easy thing per se.

I do agree that lefties have their shots reversed so to speak, and that what I've seen is that lefties think differently. However ur example of that one player from ur club/gym is not enough to conclude that lefties have an advantage! From what I have observed there could be more people playing using left than right hand to play badminton so the encounter is not as frequent? So when they do face one in a game

Sorry, but you're wrong - I have a player in my badminton sessions who is a leftie, and he is a tough cookie to handle. Even the best player in our group admitted that he has a major advantage being a leftie - all shots made must be "REVERSED", which is not an easy thing per se.

You are also wrong, we have here one guy who has been pounding everyone with his right hand and his name is lee chong wei

LD can lose to even weaker players like Park Sung Hwan, but when he faces the world #1 in LCW, it is a forgone conclusion that LD will win.

I had always thought LD and LCW were close in technical skills, except LD was always the better net player. After today's match at the World Championship where LD turned to "rallying" mode, I think the skill gap of this version of LD is much higher than LCW. Only LD can "rally" against the #1 ranked player in the world. He didn't even smash much against LCW today - just rallied with LCW the whole match.

This is not good for LCW's future matches with LD because LD can conserve so much energy with this "rallying" style of his that can still beat LCW's style.

I had always thought LD and LCW were close in technical skills, except LD was always the better net player. After today's match at the World Championship where LD turned to "rallying" mode, I think the skill gap of this version of LD is much higher than LCW. Only LD can "rally" against the #1 ranked player in the world. He didn't even smash much against LCW today - just rallied with LCW the whole match.

This is not good for LCW's future matches with LD because LD can conserve so much energy with this "rallying" style of his that can still beat LCW's style.

Agreed, spot on. The 'rally' that you talk about, LCW is nowhere close to LD's control in that aspect. I have a feeling that this might be the dawn of a new modern badminton style.